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The Symbolic Construction of Community

Tony Blackshaw
- pp 125-130
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The article was published on 2010-01-01. It has received 944 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Symbolic communication & The Symbolic.

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Ethnography for the Internet: Embedded, Embodied and Everyday

TL;DR: This book presents an overview of the challenges faced by ethnographers who wish to understand activities that involve the internet, and explores both methodological principles and practical strategies for coming to terms with the definition of field sites, the connections between online and offline and the changing nature of embodied experience.
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Designing for learning in an open world

TL;DR: This book discusses the role of Mediating Artifacts in learning design, and the needs of pedagogical planners, in the context of the changing digital landscape of education.
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Mingling, observing, and lingering: everyday public spaces and their implications for well-being and social relations

TL;DR: Different users of public spaces attain a sense of well- being for different reasons: the paper calls for policy approaches in which the social and therapeutic properties of a range of everyday spaces are more widely recognised and nurtured.
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The recognition and misrecognition of community heritage

TL;DR: This article revisited the notion of community within the field of heritage, examining the varied ways in which tensions between different groups and their aspirations arise and are mediated, and pointed out the conceptual disjunction that exists between a range of popular, political and academic attempts to define and negotiate memory, place, identity and cultural expression.
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What Schools Need to Know About Fostering School Belonging: a Meta-analysis

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used meta-analysis of individual and social level factors that influence school belonging. And the average association between each of these factors and school belonging was meta-analytically examined across 51 studies (N = 67,378).
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“The Illegal Lives”: Art Within a Community of Others

Young Min Moon, +1 more
- 09 Jun 2009 - 
TL;DR: Mixrice as discussed by the authors has pursued social interventionist activities and collaborative projects with a group of undocumented Asian migrant workers in South Korea, using photographic and media recordings, comics, murals, and texts in the form of exhibitions, publications, and the Web.

Islam, Ethnicity, and Conflict in Ethiopia

TL;DR: Ostebo as mentioned in this paper investigates the role of religion and ethnicity in times of conflict, focusing on the Muslim-dominated insurgency against the Ethiopian state in the 1960s, shedding new light on this understudied case in order to contribute to a deeper understanding of religion, inter-religious relations, ethnicity, and ethno-nationalism in the Horn of Africa.

New Diasporic Subjectivities and Transcultural Resistance in North American

TL;DR: The authors examines a particular kind of representation of collective subjectivity in recent Latin American writings of the diaspora and the North American Hispanic community, namely, a subjectivity figured both as resistant and as transcultural.
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Cross-sectorial collaboration in return to work interventions: perspectives from patients, mental health care professionals and case managers in the social insurance sector

TL;DR: The results suggest that a higher level of participation in the intervention design and implementation process can improve a clear and transparent role distribution between professionals in MHCS and SIS.
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La banda y sus choros. Un grupo de niños de la calle hilando historias de edad, género y liderazgo

TL;DR: The story of the Bucareli boys, a group of street children in Mexico City who were also known as the banda of metro Juarez, is described in this article.